A non-Governmental Organisation, LEAP Africa, has urged school leavers to embrace afterschool entrepreneurial and leadership training to be selfreliant after graduation. In a statement, LEAP Africa Programme Officer, Mrs. Chinenye Etoniru, gave the advice at the end of the entrepreneurial and leadership training by the NGO, tagged ‘School to Work Employability Programme.’ Etoniru said that the programme, co-sponsored by Citi Foundation, was a yearly event targeted at reducing the rate of unemployment among youths, especially graduates. “The programme is an opportunity for youths to learn entrepreneurial, leadership, conflict resolution and other helpful skills, like personal branding, before or in the process of searching for their desired career,” she said. Etoniru, who noted that there was high rate of graduate unemployment in the country, not because there were no jobs, but because some young people were not qualified, said: “It is not enough to graduate from school alone, but to be armed with the necessary skills that would make one get and retain a job.’’ A participant, Miss Damilola Dada, said that the courses taught had equipped her with basic skills to help her with getting a job and retaining it. She said that she hopes to further her education, and also establish a business. Dada added that should she not get a job, the entrepreneurial skills would help her to establishe her business. Similarly, Mr. Benjamin George, a graduate of accounting, said that the week-long programme had assisted in his career.
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